redwoodkestrel

There's the issue. If you've already found them they won't show up in the "Where to?" > "Geocaches" list. Try it with a couple you haven't found. I bet they'll show up fine.

Now that it's staying light out later I often go for a hike after work to go caching 2-3 times during the week, and at least once on the weekends. Currently working on a challenge to get both my D and T average above 2, so while I have plenty of unfound caches in the city around me and I could probably cache every day, for now they're being bypassed for caches with higher D/T ratings. It's pretty nice - I'm exploring more parks and open spaces around me, and it certainly has cut down on the number of micros I find now!

But by the time the OP found it, it had already been changed from a multi to a traditional. Unless the OP had gone back and read logs from over two years prior, they wouldn't have known that at some point, this cache had a stage with a decoder coin in it.

Ah ha, good glad it worked out!

Aha! Looks like it's this cache: GC12X9A. If you read the description, it used to be a multi, and if you go back and read the early logs, people are talking about the decoding at the second stage. Unfortunately it looks like the CO hasn't logged onto the site in over three years, but there are some other names listed as owners - you could check those names.

Looks like maybe that one stage had people decrypting the next stage coordinates using that coin? Might explain why it was never activated - it was meant to just stay in that one stage. Looked at the multis in the area but don't see any that match up with that sort of stage... might very well be archived.

Is there a reason you don't want all the caches that come in the pocket query? Because the simplest thing to do is just unzip the file and drag and drop the two gpx files into your Explorist - the cache one into the Geocaches folder and the waypoints file into the Waypoints folder. Then you have all the caches in a few simple steps.

Are there still geocaches loaded on the Garmin? Sometimes something goes wrong when the Garmin is starting up and all the geocaches go missing - it's happened to me a couple times. If that happened to you it would explain why you're not seeing the geocache icon on the map anymore. So first check to see if there are still geocaches loaded - go to the Geocaches page in the Garmin to see. Otherwise I don't know why the icon itself would suddenly go missing!

If you encounter a distance and direction projection out in the field, that is your solution. But if you have that information while at your Windows computer, this could be an easier solution. Or just a double check. FizzyCalc Or if you have a smart phone in the field you can use the GeoCache Calculator... just be sure to download the app before heading out when you're sure you have a connection. Then you can use it while out caching regardless of if you have reception or not. And like others have said, many GPS units have the ability to project a waypoint as well- another solution if you're trying to do it in the field.

Plug your Garmin into your computer and open it up like you would a usb drive - so you can see the folders inside. Inside the "Garmin" folder is a "GPX" folder. Take the two GPX files that you unzipped from your pocket query and drag and drop them into the GPX folder.

In the "Garmin" folder is a "GPX" folder. Put the files in that folder, and it should work!

Ah, sorry, I thought you were wondering about the functionality/ability to find a specific cache with so many geocaches loaded on the unit. I just spent a few minutes holding down the joystick to scroll through the geocaches page and yes, all of the geocaches show up (as best I can tell, I wouldn't know if a few were missing) - it doesn't seem to have a limit on how many it lists. I'm guessing I have somewhere around 1000-2000 caches in the unit right now, but I also know the one that's in there that is the farthest from me, and it was the last one on the list.

I usually find the geocaches from the map view - since I'm usually looking for the ones nearest to me at any given point. I usually hike to find caches so it's often just looking at the map for the next one down the trail. I do occasionally use the geocache page as well but since that's also ordered by distance I'm generally only interested in the top few on the list. I keep many geocaches in my Etrex since in any given week I often travel throughout a good amount of the SF Bay Area, so I keep the GPS loaded for the areas I visit most often. It's also really handy for road trips when I might not be at a computer for a few days at a time.

It's generally pretty easy to hide caches in CA State Parks. They have the rules outlined on their website here, and they include a relatively comprehensive list of which parks allow caches - including the parks where virtuals are grandfathered but no other caches are allowed.

On the E20 and E30 (and some other Garmin units) you get basically everything you see on the cache listing page. Description, D and T ratings, size, hint and some logs. If it were me, I'd go with the E20. It hold more data. You can load extra maps on the SD card. The E20 will hold 2000 caches. Really? I've never downloaded more than about 20 GCs onto my eTrex 20, because when I downloaded about 37 of them, BaseCamp showed them on my unit, but when I did the Eject and went to the geocache page, it would only show about 30 of them. I thought that it was only showing the closest 30, so I drove to one that wasn't showing and the list remained the same, the same 30 (only ordered different, since sort was set to closest). I plugged the unit back into the PC, and BaseCamp still showed the 37 GCs on the unit! I've had that happen a few times where BaseCamp shows them still on the unit, but they don't show up in the unit's display. So I always figured there was some internal limit of about 30. If it can really hold that many, then perhaps some "funny character" in a given geocache description causes the unit to ignore it and all of the GCs following it -- or something like that. I just know I gave up being bold with the number of GCs some time ago when the above happened to me 3 or 4 times. That's weird, I own an Etrex 20 and regularly load it up with multiple pocket queries, each containing hundreds of geocaches. I don't use Basecamp, but I've never had an issue with putting that many caches on the device. Maybe bypass Basecamp and see if you can get more caches to upload?

If you explain what's frustrating you about the 310 perhaps we could offer some solutions? Most people I know who have the 310 like it.

If you're still having issues once you log out and log back in to the goecaching.com website, perhaps try this: Even new GPS units sometimes come with GPX files pre-loaded. When you connect the GPSr to your computer, open it up like you would a usb drive, so you can see the folders inside. There should be a folder for GPX files - open that one up and delete the files inside. How are you putting the geocache files on your Garmin? I recommend running a pocket query. Once you unzip that file you'll have two GPX files, one of the caches and one of the waypoints. Drag and drop both of those into the GPX folder on your Garmin.

Premium-member only caches will look like circles on the map - regular caches are square. Are you uploading cache details to a GPS unit? If so, you first need to delete all the old caches files in your GPS, THEN transfer new ones in. GPS units keep the oldest version of files.

We posted at the same time - see my note above yours.

You need to delete all the old geocache files out of your Etrex first. Then when you upload new caches (or, with your new premium membership, upload the GPX files from your Pocket Queries), you'll get all the extra info that comes with your premium membership. GPS units save the oldest versions of files - so if you have any old geocaching files in there from before you were premium, they will not get overwritten with new files - so you'll still only see the basic info. Hence, the best thing to do is to get rid of all the old geocache files in the Etrex. Hope that's useful!

I looked at that cache and am not sure why you archived it after the DNF? It just sounded like he didn't feel comfortable going after it due to his own safety/limitations - nothing about the fact that it was under an overpass. I DNF caches that are big tree climbs all the time, because I know my own limitations and that I'd probably fall right out of the tree. It doesn't mean I expect the CO to archive it, nor am I complaining that it's hard to get to - I'm just stating why I personally won't be getting it. You have it as a T5, so not everyone can or will be able to get it - that's pretty normal with a T5. I just didn't get the feel of "complaining" from his log, or why you felt you were "forced" to archive it when others had found it (and others had DNF'd it). Just my $0.02!

Maybe Basecamp for Mac? I'm not positive, I have a Garmin and occasionally use a Mac to download geocaches into it, but I do so via Pocket Queries (and the GPX files PQs produce) that I load directly on my GPSr, so I'm not well-versed on how to send one cache at a time via LOC file. Nor do I know much about Basecamp, but I'd assume that would be a good place to start.

Plug your Garmin into your computer and then open it up like you would a usb drive - so that you can see the folders inside. When you download and unzip your PQ, you get two gpx files - one for the geocaches and one for the associated waypoints. Just drag those two files into the GPX folder on your Garmin. Simple!

Go to your public profile. Click the "geocaches" tab, then click "all geocache finds." Then click "Placed" at the header - it will sort all your found geocaches by the date they were placed. Click it again if it first sorts it newest to oldest, that will switch it to sorted by oldest to newest.

It would probably help if you uploaded the GPX file directly - not through Basecamp. When you plug your Garmin into your computer, open it up like you would a usb drive, so you can see the folders inside. One of the folders is for GPX files - open that one up. Make sure you have deleted your previous PQ files if they overlap with the new one. The drag the two GPX files that you got when you unzipped the PQ into the folder. All the geocaches should now show up since you didn't filter them through Basecamp first.